Do you love nature almost as much as you love dogs?
«It's funny because I always get pegged as this sort of nature girl and, yeah,
I do love nature, but I think if you heard my music in a coffee shop, you wouldn't say, «Oh, this is definitely folk music,»» she says.
Not exact matches
Worship, to him, entails obeying the great commandments to
love God and your neighbor, something that he thinks any sincere person could
do, whatever erroneous views they hold about God's
nature.
The fundamental church has
done significant damage to countless millions by perverting the
nature of
love.
Simply amazing how so many people can exsplain how God
does not exsiste in the our world... have all these people not felt
Love,,,,,,, peace from within... the
nature of caring for another... How about all they have been blessed with so far in life.
What religion teach is
love your neigbour be charitable... respect mother
nature and don't use up your MOUTH
Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith in God
does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth of God, trusting fully in Him, and acting responsively to His
love which endures for us despite our undeserving
nature.
And wiht the cross in the cartoon another symbol of gods
love, the giving
nature of God in the soldier posessing the rainbow coloured garment and not forgetting what Jesus said on the cross «father forgive them, they don't know what they are
doing».
Everything the Pope is
doing now is not just an imitation of his patron saint who
loved the poor, embraced lepers, charmed sultans, made peace and protected
nature.
In sum, then, the penalty for neglecting to allow for a divine temporal freedom beyond that of God's primordial
nature is to be required to grant, in effect, that the timeless and the abstract adequately describe the temporal and the concrete, even the concrete acts of divine
love for individuals.2 Such a view
does not agree with the deliverance of religious experience.
Yet they
do this happily, since, of its
nature,
love compels one to give way to the beloved.
but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His
love), then they would never
do things like this... he obviously was not a person who
loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to
do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely
love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human
nature and the devil takes advantage of this.
Even so, one passage
does tie the two foci together: It is explicitly through God's «
love and power» that God «shall overcome the substance of created
nature» (4.38.4).
Lord Jesus, you who are as gentle as the human hear as fiery as the forces of
nature, as intimate as life itself you in whom I can melt away and with whom I must have mastery and freedom: I
love you as a world, as the world which has captivated my heart; — and it is you, now realize, that my brother - men, even those who
do not believe, sense and seek throughout the magic immensities of the cosmos.
This self
love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (
love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his
love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's
love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's
love (the
nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self
love etc) and realize that
love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self
love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's
love before.
, and «
love your enemies»
does not mean that the Lord forbids us «to yield to the inevitabilities to which human
nature -LSB-?]
Does this mesh with the Redemptive Power of Jesus Christ on the Cross and God's
Nature and Teaching of «
Love your Enemies, Bless those who curse you» etc etc?
But this can be
done in
love and knowing in faith that even we in our arguments possess that ultimate unity, through the Church, in what is the Church's real
nature.
Mine have to
do with Calvinism and the
nature of God's
love.
We ask now if this divine self - emptying and involvement in our human lot
does not reveal the
nature of
love itself?
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what
does the Lord require of you but to
do justice, and to
love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God (Mi 6:8): God hopes, indeed expects, mercy to emerge from liberated and sanctified human
nature; God hopes, and indeed expects, that human beings should be just, merciful, and
loving freely, not from compulsion.
The woman was going on about how she
loves the animal and
did nt want to harm it but she forgot the
nature of what she was dealing with.
Rex like you i am saved and that is not dependent on whether i read the bible or tithe or go to church or fellowship i
do those things because i
love the Lord not because i have to.That is what the Lord meant when he said that the sabbath was for man not man for the sabbath.I agree that to live a christian life the old
nature must be crucified with Christ and to live it we must die to it daily by submitting all our hearts to God and be lead by his holy spirit.brentnz
But not everyone agrees with us on this issue and the families of those who want
nature to take it's course sacrifice so much and
love while they
do it.
If the history of
nature is a result of unilateral, divine control, then God's
love must be questioned, for the history of life on earth
does not readily attest to the existence of an all - controlling and all -
loving God.
Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects God's reconciliation to man and nature; «For love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&ra
Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects God's reconciliation to man and
nature; «For
love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...&ra
love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...»
There is no lust in christ but just an infinite source of the
love of the spirit that's pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness of our present being.God designed woman as the companion of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful
nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is
love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this
nature, God
did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted
love of christ.
Does the belief that the whole world of
nature and history is the creative and redemptive venture of eternal
Love make sense?
Nature has just as much beauty, order,
love, and wonder as it
does death, blood, suffering, and murder, and Scripture has hundreds of dark and disturbing passages which seems to paint a different picture of God than we read about in the Gospels or in 1 John 4:8.
All that He
does is the expression of His
nature, which is — to
love.
Insofar as a Christian theology, with its inherent theodicy, can
do justice to the more neutral facts in a more coherently adequate way than theologies (including a / theologies) starting from a different vision of reality, the idea of the perfectly good,
loving nature of God is warranted.
The true liberty of man is, to know, obey and enjoy his Creator, and to
do all the good unto, and enjoy all the happiness with and in his fellow creatures that he is capable of; in order to which the law of
love was written in his heart, which carries in it's
nature union and benevolence to Being in general, and to each being in particular, according to it's
nature and excellency, and to it's relation and connexion with the supreme Being, and ourselves.
Upon my one hand, I
do so
Love God's worthwhile
natures but on my other hand, I detest God's past desires toward him interfering with our humanism's past ways.
This certainly is for the best; nothing could be more splendid, nothing more rewarding, than the confident assurance that we matter to God and that he is both able and willing to use what we have
done, and hence what we are, for the further expression of the
love which is the divine
nature and purpose.
This will not
do, since God's
nature and activity are always and everywhere identically
Love - in - act.
And since all «being» is found only in «
doing» — Whitehead's maxim that «a thing is what it
does» is crucial here — the creaturely energizing which is at work in the whole creation finds its goal in, and its final significance through its being taken «up» into himself by the unsurpassable God «whose
nature and whose name is
Love».
or «What a
loving spirit he has» we don't mean the Holy Spirit, but are talking about the person's character or
nature which makes them who they are.
All the ugliness seen in the OT
does not fit with the Jesus I see of the Gospels, so that I hold at arms length until I have been in relationship with others long enough for my inner self to show me how it
does fit with the all
loving nature of Jesus Christ.
And so there live perhaps a great multitude of men who labor off and on to obscure their ethical and religious understanding which would lead them out into decisions and consequences which the lower
nature does not
love, extending meanwhile their aesthetic and metaphysical understanding, which ethically is a distraction.
I have different understandings of (1) what it means for God to judge, (2) the
nature of sin and evil, and (3) what
love can and can not
do.
Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where
do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God
does nt change his mind he always
loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our
nature only Christ can
do that our old
nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant
do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could
do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant
do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he
did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant
do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz
It is not good enough merely to refrain from killing your enemy; you must
love him too: «Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly» (Lk 6, 27 - 28) Jesus» words seem a divine madness and entirely contrary to human nat
love him too: «
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly» (Lk 6, 27 - 28) Jesus» words seem a divine madness and entirely contrary to human nat
Love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly» (Lk 6, 27 - 28) Jesus» words seem a divine madness and entirely contrary to human
nature.
I think finally people that are leaving the church and those still not willing to join are fed up with church doctrine that is not biblically sound and that doesn't line up with God's
nature of unconditional
Love.
This may seem to be sheer sentimentality; but it can only seem so when we
do not properly understand the
nature of
love.
Actually, the
nature of life on Earth makes more sense with a group of malevolent gods who are in constant conflict with each other and don't really care about humans than it
does with a single all - powerful
loving God.
It also shows us we can be unconditionally
loved, to help us to accept that
love even when we know we don't deserve it, which can illustrate to us just how much God must
love us, and to
love God completely when we come to grasp more and more His
nature.
But
do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful
nature; rather, serve one another humbly in
love.
In Compelled By
Love we wrote, «But
do not be fooled: This is a story about the very
nature of God and the heart of His church.
It is of the
nature of
love to pour itself out for others; to take into itself all that is made available to it; to absorb the evil which is there and out of it to distil something good; and to
do all this not for self - aggrandizement but for the benefit of the entire relationship in its widest and richest sense.
But Aquinas
did exceed Augustine's limited definition of the
nature of
love by recognizing that «to
love a person is to will good for that person.»